Twenty-five years ago in Rome, a man lugged a painting in a rubbish bag up a flight of stairs and sold it for $5.5m. The painting was a lavish 17th-century still life by Jan Davidsz de Heem, in ...

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A collection put together by Thomas A. Saunders III, a former chairman of the Heritage Foundation, and his wife, Jordan, is heading to the auction house in May. By Scott Reyburn A trove of old ...

From Rubens to Guardi, Frans Post to Frans Hals—a treasure trove of Old Masters, lovingly built up over decades, is heading to auction, where it is poised to shatter records. Sixty paintings ...

While Christie’s and Sotheby’s embrace the future, critics warn of traceability challenges and possible money laundering ...